Amazon Kindle Fire: estimated 6 million sold

By George Wong on 01/30/2012, filed in Home > Tablets

Amazon Kindle Fire: estimated 6 million sold We all know that Amazon has sold “millions” of Kindle Fire tablets, but what the exact figure is – we’re not so sure. According to an estimation by Jordan Rohan, an analyst at Stifel Nicolas, – the company sold 6 million units of the Android tablet in the last quarter alone. He also believes that the Kindle and the Kindle Fire have effectively become the 3^rd major mobile ecosystem after Apple iOS and Google Android – something that competing tablet manufacturers and app developers should take note of.

Amazon will be revealing its Q4 2011 results tomorrow, so hopefully we’ll find out the real number then. But it looks like the Kindle Fire is proving to be a hit for Amazon, despite the company reportedly not making any money from sales of the hardware. What do you think? Is 6 million an accurate estimate of Kindle Fire sales, or should the number be lower or higher?

Amazon: Amazon.com is an American multinational e-commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. The company also produces its own consumer electronics, notably the Amazon Kindle e-book reader, and is a major provider of cloud computing services with its Amazon AWS service.

Android: Android is the mobile operating system from Google. The software was originally built by a company called Android Inc, that was purchased by Google in 2005. From its modest debuts, Android has become a powerhouse that powers not only smartphones and tablet, but a host of other less high-profile devices and gadgets. Although Android is not a community-driven project, Google does release the source code as open-source under the Apache license. You can follow Ubergizmo on Android with Google Currents.

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